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- From: trljim@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (JIM SONNENMEIER)
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- Subject: Re: Well MY clock ...
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:36:00 GMT
- References: <24571@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <1992Dec23.133853.9806@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <HUTTAR.92Dec23101351@hp750.itg.ti.com>
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- In article <HUTTAR.92Dec23101351@hp750.itg.ti.com>, huttar@hp750.itg.ti.com (Lars Huttar) writes...
- >In article <1992Dec23.133853.9806@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel J. McCoy) writes:
- >> bill@solaria (Bill Neisius) writes:
- >> |>Douglas W O'Neal (doug@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu) wrote:
- >> |>:norm@bnr.ca writes:
- >> |>:->bret@muppet.bt.co.uk (Bret Giddings) writes:
- >> |>:->|> What! another clock for wimps. I use a real clock, one that displays the number
- >> |>:->|> of seconds since Jan 1st 1970.
- >> |>:->This is starting to sound like the "We were *so* poor..." skit from Monty
- >> |>:->Python. BTW, (let's see what I can come up with), *I* use the number of seconds
- >> |>:->since Jan 1, 1970 but in Greenwich Mean Time :-)
- >> |>:*I* use the number of seconds since Nov 17, 1858. (I can't help it, I was
- >> |>:raised on VMS and UN*X time doesn't come naturally to me.)
- >> |>Oh yeah? MY clock counts from January 1, 4713 B.C. (start of the
- >> |>astronomical Julian calendar)
- >>
- >> OH YEAH??? My clock counts seconds backwards from Star Date 938943.1299,
- >> the second coming of Jesus.
- >
- >You're all pansies... mine just displays nanoseconds since the Big Bang --
- >modulo 3!
- >
- >(Apologies for posting non-source.)
- >
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- gee all I have is a 12 buck timex ... <watching time fly as I read these
- posts>
-
- grin
-
- Jim
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